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“Spider had that easy way about him that people who have never had anything bad happen to them seem to possess.”
― Heidi R. Kling, Sea

“Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair -- Look at what's really there.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“It seemed as though Margaret hovered near Alice, aware of Alice when Alice didn't seem to be aware of Margaret.”
― Tracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren

“I know they're not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it's tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like the world isn't a safe place.

And of course, that's true, isn't it? The world is not a safe place.”
― E. Lockhart, The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver

“We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Once you want something, everything changes.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask that fugging question. But no. No. Daddy does not have a match or a lighter.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.”
― E. Lockhart, The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

“It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.”
― E. Lockhart, The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

“My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.”
― Sarah Dessen, That Summer

“I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.”
― Ally Carter, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“My little brother is in rehab.
My little brother is in rehab.
I feel like these words are written on my arms whenever I push up my sleeves, written on my cheeks whenever they relax out of my fake smile. They want to come out of my mouth, all the time. When I am called upon in class, or when someone says, "Hey, what's up?" - that's what I want to answer. "My little brother's in rehab." But I never do.”
― E. Lockhart, 21 Proms

“Grandma kept turning around in the front seat of their old Fiat saying, "Look at you girls! On, Lena, you are a beauty!"
Lena seriously wished she would stop saying that, because it was irritating, and besides, how was cranky Effie supposed to feel?”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable."

Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Her parents had basically abdicated their roles as guardians and she was building a bomb. In order to kill a poodle.”
― Kristen Tracy, Lost It

“Really, I think my tippy state was a sign. I was supposed to see how much I was depending on Ben. I was supposed to realize that you can't depend on another person to provide your own balance.”
― Kristen Tracy, Lost It

“They looked shallow, self-absorbed. And a small, strangled part of me envied them.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Scribbler of Dreams

“There was a sense of permanence about Egypt; the past was never far from the present.”
― McKay, A History of World Societies: Combined

“Omigod, I'm so bored I could shoot myself in the head with a knife.”
― Robyn Schneider, Better Than Yesterday

“It didn't feel like my world. It felt more like a dream. Something temporary.”
― Kieran Scott, Brunettes Strike Back

“...It was almost like I was expecting to get crushed.”
― Kieran Scott, Brunettes Strike Back

“I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength, Marion's determination, and Michael's sly humor. I wasn't sure what I could give, not just yet. But I would know when I told her about the comet, years from now, I would know. And I would lean close to her ear, saying the words no one else could hear, explaining it all. The language of solace and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You